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November 18 is Prematurity Awareness Day.
I am one of those moms who had firsthand experience with prematurity. My twin boys were born 5 weeks early 6 years ago. Even though they’ve grown to be healthy boys, we had to struggle with low birth weight and health problems during the first year of their lives.
This is [...]
April is Cesarean Awareness Month. And increased awareness is definitely what we need, not only for this month but the whole year round. Because the recent US baby boom seemed to have been accompanied by a C-section boom.
According to the 2007 statistics recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), C-section delivers [...]
Switzerland, a country which has one of the best health care systems in the world, has a big problem. More and more babies are born premature and Swiss hospitals have no place to put them, according to the daily “20 Minuten.” These hospitals are overwhelmed with the increase in premature births in recent years. With [...]
On December 5th, 2007, the National Center for Health Statistics reported that in 2005, the preterm birth rate rose, and figures for 2006 were tending towards another increase. Babies are considered preterm when they are born before thirty-seven weeks of gestation.
The National Center for Health Statistics findings concluded that the preterm birth rate increased in [...]
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